I fully switched over 4 years ago (as in no dual booting anymore) and I haven't looked back. That whole misery of using Windows just isn't worth it to play that one or those 2 or 3 games which only run on Windows (DRM) or which you only are allowed (anticheat, like Rainbow Six Siege) to play on Windows.
Imagine 50% switching over at once. Imagine the whine on irc and forums and hatred from users towards linux devs. Then imagine, dev of Linux stopping cause of the hate bombardment on its developers.
I really want to switch, but dealing with the terminal just isn't for me. If Linux wants more people to adopt it, it needs to focus on a more user-friendly GUI and less on the nerdy stuff. A ready-to-use system would attract more users, which in turn would encourage companies to support their products on Linux. Where the people go, the companies will follow.
@@NebulousTwistsadly you will be shown the door back to windows, the terminal is the only way for these cultists. Im hoping for some non unix BS alternative to windows but i guess im out of luck
There are two types of people. Masochists and sadists. Masochists put up a TODO poll with "Linux from Scratch" as an option. Sadists vote for that option.
Shout out to Chris and his amazing channel. One comment on LFS is, that if you -do- decide to go down that broken glass lane, to arrive at some, beautiful tasty - finished- gingerbread house ... you can only use it for a short time because -ALL- security updates/patches on any part of it, are not maintained anywhere by LFS. There is no human way, one person, could track all that and keep LFS safe and current even if you love compiling. It's a studious exercise at best and learning will occur, but you will not drive it every day. Again - THANK YOU, Chris Titus!
I appreciate the honesty, I feel like you understand people coming from windows better than any Linux youtuber or commenter I've come across. Realistic expectations help, even though I knew a lot of it already, I felt like I was screaming into a void with people denying these things. It made me question if I'm missing something or worry it's just something people using Linux don't see or care about. It really helps just for general sanity. Especially when you have somebody's comment of "it just works" and "you don't need the CLI in Linux anymore" ringing in your ears when you're forced to troubleshoot a problem you don't understand, in the terminal, which I also "don't understand" and don't like. (I mean I get the basics, but I don't like random letters program names and 1 letter arguments I can never remember, especially when I'm not using them all the time. I'm a hotkey person. Also it would help if commands were more "discoverable", to use the buzzword.) It also helped to see that even somebody experienced with it is still copying and pasting commands. I guess that really is how it is. Feels wrong somehow. Also, I don't like text config files. A GUI isn't just about clicking, it's about the parameters having a sanity check to make sure you're entering something valid (not just running into a cryptic error later and not knowing why, if you even get an error), and seeing what all your options are without a lot of back and forth with a man file or wiki. Just choosing from a menu, instead of adding extra steps. CLI is great for scripting and automation, not for when you're out in the weeds trying to use new unfamiliar programs as an actual user.
Yes, that's why I just started following him. Almost all Linux guys just bash Windows but they can't take any criticism of Linux. They have an excuse for every problem Windows users bring up and pretend it's not a real problem. He seems to be realistic and honest and seems to understand the frustrations of Windows users.
I am a long term Linux user and most Linux users will just say things aren't a problem when they are. It is hugely annoying because really important issues never get fixed for years as a result. However if they want to make an entire new Window system everyone is going to jump on that.
@@dave7244 yeah it's gaslighting at it's finest. If they would just be honest like Chris, people wouldn't be disappointed when they start using it but will come expecting it to have issues and might enjoy the process more.
1:07:06 - I completely agree. This should be the entry point to Linux. Once you understand that you can get the most for whatever you want to do on linux.
You literally can not play StarCraft2 or Age of Empires 4 competitively without the F-keys on your keyboard. Let that sink in! Keyboard without F-keys and not even being able to play RTS-games. Crazy.
@@imzesok Attaboy! 😆That F2-function did so much damage to me at first. Man, unlearning that bad habit and working with proper groups...I use 4 camera-hotkeys. 😉
@@peterjansen4826 Setting up control groups is pretty easy with zerg once you form that habit of grouping the eggs. The other two races though it's a bit harder without using F2 to grab all the shiny new units. The hard part really is remembering not to F2 for any other reason. Do you actually use those 4 camera-hotkeys or do you do, like my friend in M3/2 does, and set them up then promptly forget they exist after though 😉 I know i'm guilty of it. 🤣
@@imzesok I started with Terran bio. I use the 4 camera-hotkeys for 4 bases, when I need to go to another point a bit away from the base then I typically go to one camera-location and move the camera from there with by moving the mouse to the edge with a vastly higher speed than the default. Iti is crazy for me that Blizzard never fixed the default setting for that speed because every player who is a bit competitive recommends to set it much higher.. 😆 I prefer playing macro and greedy (4 bases saturated all the time) so then the camera-hotkeys help a lot to check how the bases are doing.
@@peterjansen4826 I have my base cam cycle button bound to space bar. and it has always been "good/fast enough" for me, so I just don't think about the camera locations. If i'm using homerow, it's harder to hit the F-keys with my tiny ass hands, which doesn't help. I know it's generally recommended to have at least one set to the front of both yours and opponents natural, but then, what's the point of the minimap(side gripe: I kinda wish it's location was adjustable)? Agreed with the pan speed being ridiculously slow, they should have that defaulted much higher. it's fine in the campaign where the game plays at "normal speed", but competitive is played at faster, it just doesn't scale that well IMO.
You are very correct regarding graphics settings, man there are so many effects I run in there to kill off the moment I see them. Depth of Field the first time I saw it, was with the first Metro game, and at that time it cost you 10-20 FPS enabling it, so you paid in performance to have blurry vision outside of your scope of the rifle. I know for a fact I do not want to pay for an effect I dislike and that comes naturally when focusing, so that became a vendetta against Depth of Field from me and it is one of the first things I disable in the options of any new game. So what I disable for effects is: Lens Flare (Do not want to be blinded by a sun in the game which is what this is usually used for) Depth of Field (Blurryness for the sake of emulating a camera) Motion Blur (Really annoying, it is gone the moment I see it) Ambient Occlusion (Varies, usually dependent on what other annoying hidden effects that this one hides, tends to make lights a bit sharper) Music (Yes, in Coop games, this one is always stabbed to death by me, I want to hear my comms, not the ramped up music interferring.)
(Edit: Wrote this before you started showing your guide). I would love a series of videos on choosing your first Linux distro (aka pro's and con's of each/what best suits different needs), installing it, and installing programs you need, troubleshooting any issues you run into. Maybe also pro's and con's of using a base distro vs a pre-customised one (i.e. Fedora vs Nobara).
Bounced off of Linux Mint twice. I decided that the suggestion of Mint for me was just wrong. I'm going polar opposite into Arch after watching probably several day's worth of content about it, and I've basically planned out my entire system as it pertains to packages and configuration, btrfs, timeshift to hold my hand a bit. A second Arch on a VM to use as a command canary and test updates and new packages, at least til im used to using Arch. etc etc. Thank you for being an excellent resource.
Further into the video, I suppose the biggest thing I would still ask for a greater explanation of, is why you would choose rolling vs stable. My understanding is that rolling is best for gamers as you are more likely to get games to work on there especially with newer packages.
Hey Chris what do you think of EndevourOS ? I'm trying to get btrfs/snapper to create snapshots, snap-pac, grub-btrfs, snapper-gui.. it took a while but I got it working perfectly, I could move back and forth through snapshots in Arch-linux, so thought it time to reinstall and repeat the install, and some thing messed my config and now it all a mess 8( ...I should of just used the original install and not try to repeat the install...
He answered it in his tier list video. Summing up his thoughts on all Arch based distros he saw them as pointless. "Why use a riced version of Arch when you can rice it yourself." I think if it had been my video I would have made an intermediate tier in addition to the beginner/new user tier he had and stuck EndeavourOS there. I'm currently an EOS user now but I'm thinking of switching to Nobara Linux since I mainly game and photo edit and Nobara has really good tools for setting up NVIDIA out of the box and running (given darktable is kind of having some issues with OpenCLI with Radeon cards right now). But if you search for Chris' video he does have the tier list out there to piss off as many people as possible along with a clip of him demoting ZorinOS as well lol.
There's so much missing on Linux, what does Linus Torvalds say about systemd on his Linux system, there were soo many good visual programming suites/tools back in the bubble, visual dos, visual JavaScript from netscape, visual basic, visual studio, visualFoxPro, visualSQL, visual Perl, borland Delph - Kylix, and other Rad visual dev platforms like Magick, and the java visual stuff, all gone because of linux
I must have a weird hardware combo because I could not get games to run correctly at all no matter what I tried (weird ghosting, stuttering, artifacting, etc) so I resorted to building a separate cheaper box specifically for linux that does everything I want besides gaming, then when I want to play games I tab over to a separate workspace where I have Moonlight client always running and connected to the Windows box that I only use for games and nothing else. This will work for me until things change :)
Did you use NVIDIA+Wayland? This sounds like the type of issue you would get. The 560 driver should solve it (along side explicit sync support from DEs)
I used i3 for a while. it seems to me that the performance tends to take a dive after a month or two, and I don't really know why that is. I imagine it'd take quite a while to notice if I had an SSD, but my install was on a spinning drive. refreshed that install because I did have it for a while at that point, thinking that might be the issue. and it again worked fine for the first while, and it again tanked in performance. I checked the drive and it came back clean. seems to be an i3 issue, but I can't be certain. it kinda sucked, because I did start to like it well enough.
I heard that the maker of the proton compatibility layer (Spicy Eggroll?) made Nobara and that due to that it is having the best game compatibility? I would love to hear your comments (and people's comments from here too).
I'm just curious if you have had any experience with Intel's ARC line of graphics cards on Linux. If so, what's your position or take towards their compatibility, integration, and performance on a Linux system? I'm not interested in buying one per-se, just curious towards the operability between hardware vendor architects with already existing Operating System Kernels, specifically in this case the Linux Kernel.
Hey, Chris! I'm getting ready to move to Linux and I'm trying to figure out how to port my normal "strategy" of program installs. I use the Portable version of a program whenever possible so that I never have to re-setup all the different options each time: save locations, window locations, etc. That way I can just backup the program directory and move it where ever I want to run it. How would I implement this strategy on a Linux system. Thanks!
I'm a novice, but I don't think portable apps are a thing on Linux. I think the closest you can get are AppImages. Someone with more experience will correct me possibly?
I used dwm much longer than Chris but I am not that familiar with the patch-program. 😏I literally used it once per new dwm-version, just to install the systemtray-patch. After that so much has changed (large patch) that I consider it more cumbersome to keep using the patch-program than just doing it myself. But the basic principle of the patch-program is straightforward: the patch program gets all the information it needs from the diff-file which gets generated automatcially by comparing the changed code to the original code (unpatched dwm), it simply reads which lines to add and remove in which files and it gets a rough (after the files changed compared to the original file) indication of where those lines are. If the software is in another directory then the user simply points out where it is. Not so complicated. I think that you can learn relevant things from LfS but for me it is much more interesting to just read how it works (and make sure that I understand it) than actually compiling all the software on my own system.
When you said 300 hours of setup to save 3 minutes of work, all I can think of is how you should hire a smart, lazy person as they will figure out the best ways to do tasks easier and faster.
That's not Linux from scratch... All of the software sources codes are already written... Now go and write every line of source code! That's from scratch!
Didn't even touch the bugbear of Linux, the god damned file system. I've had multiple drives collated under one bullshit name/header in the borked-ass file "system". It's ridiculous that it's so obtuse.
This shit is too hard. Why give up what i already know works perfectly for me? My games don't work, especially VR ones. Many of my games are labeled as "borked" on the proton database thingy. VR headset itself won't turn on when connected either. I tried for a day to get used to it and didn't get anywhere close. Anything longer is just too much of my limited free time wasted. When I get home, exhausted from work, I just want my games to work. And every time I tried to get help I got the usual "RTFM" and "oh thats easy _insert big block of terminal gibberish."_
Linux is a hobby itself because if you don't work with it, there's not that good of a use case for it otherwise. For the vast majority, Microsoft's horrific anti consumer and anti privacy antics is what has made people look for alternatives, not any inherent attraction of Linux. Trying a Linux based system for a day to "get used to it" while expecting it to do all the goomer shit windows is suited to is akin to mashing piano keys for a day hoping to "get used to it" and be playing Chopin by the evening. Much like a real musical instrument, there's a lot of effort and learning that need to be put into Linux for it to work melodiously. Even then, no instrument is fit for all purposes. Combine that with the huge friction that comes with people having to change their habits and learning something difficult and it becomes clearly apparent why most would rather let Microsoft and Co. harvest their data.
@@screwthishi5thing I'm not expecting it to do all the creepy shit windows does... Just what???? So you're saying that is inseparable from having things just work? The piano analogy is just stupid because I'd never consider switching OS to learn or as a hobby, the only reason I'd switch is to escape microshaft's bullshit when tweaking windows is no longer possible. I don't have time to do all that shit. If linux wants more popularity, someone needs to make a perfect distro with all the necessary compatibility layers already installed and set up, including for VR headsets. For some of us it's not an unwillingness to learn but rather *we just don't have the time.* I just want my games to work with no hassle, especially VR games. And I don't see a need to have to learn linux when I can just modify windows with easy one click solutions (such as winaero tweaker or windows 10 debloater) that can neutralize all the shit microshaft puts in there all while still having my games "just work". I work a full time job, I don't have time to fight with my OS just to play a damn game when I get home. My free time is a limited resource, I'd rather spend it PLAYING my games and not constantly fighting with the OS to make them work. I already put in enough effort into windows to disable as much of that shit as possible. Windows 10 debloater to uninstall all the "stock" MS apps and replace them with better alternatives as well as completely removing the telemetry from the OS at the system level. Winaero tweaker to completely disable anything else like cortana or copilot. That's good enough and my games still just work. Plus windows now uses literally 50% less resources on bootup too.
Tf how is gaming not meant for "grown ups"... You don't believe in entertainment at all I assume? I work a full time job, I pay my bills, I get my essential shit done. So what am I supposed to do in my free time then if not gaming???
@@RedVRCC you're free to do whatever you want mate. But I don't want to waste away my time after work switching off my head. I keep on programming personal apps and tools. I just do it for me, maybe someday I have something that I can use to build my own company with
@@RedVRCC it's not work if it is fun, is it? I myself was once an avid counter strike player (back in those glory 1.5/1.6 days) now I'm an old boomer and thinking back... It was a waste of time which I could have used better. With Hindsight everything is easier to assess.
A two hour video about understanding Linux should be a red flag to anyone interested in Linux. A 5 minute video about Windows 11 should be enough to get you going perfectly well on Windows. Going for Linux is like buying a cow to get milk.
The issue is that Linux users severely downplay the complexity of desktop Linux and it's issues, because they're aware just how bad it is, they adapted to that mess and they know that if they told beginners the truth, that would permanently dissuade them from ever considering Linux. I'd say it would be more beneficial to state upfront all the issues of Linux, because then people who would be willing to learn it would know from the start what they're getting into instead of being lied to and then having a whiplash when they face the reality of Linux.
This. I tried linux for a while and it took me soooo god damn long to even get a single game to run. And my VR games are unplayable because it won't detect the headset. Not to mention the RGB case fans and lighting I put so much effort into on my PC build can't be controlled anymore. Same with my peripherals, mouse and keyboard's extra features are unusable now. Also Nvidia driver support is complete ass, linux really did not like my 3060...
When you do the vkBasalt video, please go over using custom shaders and how to set them up in the configs. I do use Reshade regularly on Windows but my usage is pretty heavy with Addons for effects layering, RT and Compute shaders, this looks very simple if all you're doing is tweaking the saturation or contrast, but honestly looks like a pain to fine-tune Presets on the fly since I need a much more involved setup and honestly so is anyone that actually uses Reshade seriously, but I don't have the entire context behind it perhaps...
While I understand talking negatively about the lack of choice on Windows in terms of key components such as display servers, init systems and whatnot, but Linux's freedom of choice is inherently flawed, as in there is no single standard. On Windows it's a single standard. Windows Boot Manager, Session Manager Subsystem, Desktop Window Manager. No freedom of choice? Yes, but there's a single standard. On Linux there's no single standard, and this leads to the issue where companies don't treat Linux seriously, as they aren't willing to port their software to Linux and be sure it will work on any distro with any combination of those components of which there are dozens in countless combinations, a lot of fringe cases to take into account for it to be worth the time and money. The reason systemd won is because it's a standard, one solution that developers don't have to worry about, no matter how bloated it is and how egotistical Poettering is. If people want Linux to have a higher user base, having a single standard for desktop components would be the number one thing to rectify from the decades of desktop Linux existing to finally push it forward instead of waiting on Windows to just get worse.
This is absolutely the hard truth Linux Desktop users don't want to admit. It needs standardization for real adoption. An official SteamOS Desktop distro by Valve would be massive as a step to achieve that goal.
What these two smoothbrains above don't ironically understand, (or they're being ignorantly malicious on purpose) is that should linux standardize to the levels they want it to, we would just end up with another Windows. Especially the idiot asking for the standard to come from a megacorp, Jesus Christ.
Bruh AMD is just fine for Davinci just saying... You should use it with rustcl and it just works if rocm isn't doing it for ya.. also easiest way to run davinci and never have issues on any distro is to install it through davincibox
Yes agree its a long journey to switch to Linux its paying off now. Rocky start with Debian 7 when Gnome switched to Gnome 3 my goodness made me to switch plain openbox and still using it with tint2 best non tiling manager ever.
With proton and proton GE I haven't found a game I couldn't run on linux. Linux really improved much after the steam deck launch and I permanently moved over now. The games with anticheat I really dont care about because having spyware on my pc really isn't my thing. These days for the average gamer I will definitely recommend trying out linux because some games even run beter with some tuning.
Is there a linux laptop or desktop that has all the problems fixed and the user can just use it instead of spending time trouble shoot every once a while?
Probably an older ThinkPad like a T480 or a X1 Carbon Gen6. Using Manjaro and Fedora on my machines for years without problems. As a beginner I would try Fedora with KDE it's rock solid.
Installing Linux to be considered a god amongst mere mortals; proceeds to wipe current hard drive... 2Hrs later and one configuration setting change... Then you realize you're still just a mortal!
Understanding Linux starts at - 54:38
Thanks. I wasnt ready to watch 2hr video lol.
Next tutorial about proton & steam would be amazing ❤
Now is the time to switch for those who haven’t already.
I fully switched over 4 years ago (as in no dual booting anymore) and I haven't looked back. That whole misery of using Windows just isn't worth it to play that one or those 2 or 3 games which only run on Windows (DRM) or which you only are allowed (anticheat, like Rainbow Six Siege) to play on Windows.
Imagine 50% switching over at once. Imagine the whine on irc and forums and hatred from users towards linux devs. Then imagine, dev of Linux stopping cause of the hate bombardment on its developers.
I really want to switch, but dealing with the terminal just isn't for me. If Linux wants more people to adopt it, it needs to focus on a more user-friendly GUI and less on the nerdy stuff. A ready-to-use system would attract more users, which in turn would encourage companies to support their products on Linux. Where the people go, the companies will follow.
Ehm....no
@@NebulousTwistsadly you will be shown the door back to windows, the terminal is the only way for these cultists. Im hoping for some non unix BS alternative to windows but i guess im out of luck
There are two types of people. Masochists and sadists.
Masochists put up a TODO poll with "Linux from Scratch" as an option. Sadists vote for that option.
hey thanks man. your videos have really been helping me out. It's finally starting to click and now I'm addicted to the CLI!!!
Shout out to Chris and his amazing channel. One comment on LFS is, that if you -do- decide to go down that broken glass lane, to arrive at some, beautiful tasty - finished- gingerbread house ... you can only use it for a short time because -ALL- security updates/patches on any part of it, are not maintained anywhere by LFS. There is no human way, one person, could track all that and keep LFS safe and current even if you love compiling. It's a studious exercise at best and learning will occur, but you will not drive it every day.
Again - THANK YOU, Chris Titus!
I appreciate the honesty, I feel like you understand people coming from windows better than any Linux youtuber or commenter I've come across. Realistic expectations help, even though I knew a lot of it already, I felt like I was screaming into a void with people denying these things. It made me question if I'm missing something or worry it's just something people using Linux don't see or care about. It really helps just for general sanity. Especially when you have somebody's comment of "it just works" and "you don't need the CLI in Linux anymore" ringing in your ears when you're forced to troubleshoot a problem you don't understand, in the terminal, which I also "don't understand" and don't like. (I mean I get the basics, but I don't like random letters program names and 1 letter arguments I can never remember, especially when I'm not using them all the time. I'm a hotkey person. Also it would help if commands were more "discoverable", to use the buzzword.)
It also helped to see that even somebody experienced with it is still copying and pasting commands. I guess that really is how it is. Feels wrong somehow.
Also, I don't like text config files. A GUI isn't just about clicking, it's about the parameters having a sanity check to make sure you're entering something valid (not just running into a cryptic error later and not knowing why, if you even get an error), and seeing what all your options are without a lot of back and forth with a man file or wiki. Just choosing from a menu, instead of adding extra steps. CLI is great for scripting and automation, not for when you're out in the weeds trying to use new unfamiliar programs as an actual user.
Yes, that's why I just started following him. Almost all Linux guys just bash Windows but they can't take any criticism of Linux. They have an excuse for every problem Windows users bring up and pretend it's not a real problem. He seems to be realistic and honest and seems to understand the frustrations of Windows users.
I am a long term Linux user and most Linux users will just say things aren't a problem when they are. It is hugely annoying because really important issues never get fixed for years as a result. However if they want to make an entire new Window system everyone is going to jump on that.
@@dave7244 yeah it's gaslighting at it's finest. If they would just be honest like Chris, people wouldn't be disappointed when they start using it but will come expecting it to have issues and might enjoy the process more.
1:07:06 - I completely agree. This should be the entry point to Linux. Once you understand that you can get the most for whatever you want to do on linux.
You literally can not play StarCraft2 or Age of Empires 4 competitively without the F-keys on your keyboard. Let that sink in! Keyboard without F-keys and not even being able to play RTS-games. Crazy.
just rebind F2 to `, and you'll be ok in SC2. most people are not using the camera location hotkeys anyway. 😛
@@imzesok Attaboy! 😆That F2-function did so much damage to me at first. Man, unlearning that bad habit and working with proper groups...I use 4 camera-hotkeys. 😉
@@peterjansen4826 Setting up control groups is pretty easy with zerg once you form that habit of grouping the eggs. The other two races though it's a bit harder without using F2 to grab all the shiny new units. The hard part really is remembering not to F2 for any other reason.
Do you actually use those 4 camera-hotkeys or do you do, like my friend in M3/2 does, and set them up then promptly forget they exist after though 😉
I know i'm guilty of it. 🤣
@@imzesok I started with Terran bio. I use the 4 camera-hotkeys for 4 bases, when I need to go to another point a bit away from the base then I typically go to one camera-location and move the camera from there with by moving the mouse to the edge with a vastly higher speed than the default. Iti is crazy for me that Blizzard never fixed the default setting for that speed because every player who is a bit competitive recommends to set it much higher.. 😆 I prefer playing macro and greedy (4 bases saturated all the time) so then the camera-hotkeys help a lot to check how the bases are doing.
@@peterjansen4826 I have my base cam cycle button bound to space bar. and it has always been "good/fast enough" for me, so I just don't think about the camera locations. If i'm using homerow, it's harder to hit the F-keys with my tiny ass hands, which doesn't help. I know it's generally recommended to have at least one set to the front of both yours and opponents natural, but then, what's the point of the minimap(side gripe: I kinda wish it's location was adjustable)?
Agreed with the pan speed being ridiculously slow, they should have that defaulted much higher. it's fine in the campaign where the game plays at "normal speed", but competitive is played at faster, it just doesn't scale that well IMO.
You are very correct regarding graphics settings, man there are so many effects I run in there to kill off the moment I see them.
Depth of Field the first time I saw it, was with the first Metro game, and at that time it cost you 10-20 FPS enabling it, so you paid in performance to have blurry vision outside of your scope of the rifle.
I know for a fact I do not want to pay for an effect I dislike and that comes naturally when focusing, so that became a vendetta against Depth of Field from me and it is one of the first things I disable in the options of any new game.
So what I disable for effects is:
Lens Flare (Do not want to be blinded by a sun in the game which is what this is usually used for)
Depth of Field (Blurryness for the sake of emulating a camera)
Motion Blur (Really annoying, it is gone the moment I see it)
Ambient Occlusion (Varies, usually dependent on what other annoying hidden effects that this one hides, tends to make lights a bit sharper)
Music (Yes, in Coop games, this one is always stabbed to death by me, I want to hear my comms, not the ramped up music interferring.)
Bravo, Chris. The second half was spot on my thought train.
(Edit: Wrote this before you started showing your guide). I would love a series of videos on choosing your first Linux distro (aka pro's and con's of each/what best suits different needs), installing it, and installing programs you need, troubleshooting any issues you run into. Maybe also pro's and con's of using a base distro vs a pre-customised one (i.e. Fedora vs Nobara).
Bounced off of Linux Mint twice. I decided that the suggestion of Mint for me was just wrong. I'm going polar opposite into Arch after watching probably several day's worth of content about it, and I've basically planned out my entire system as it pertains to packages and configuration, btrfs, timeshift to hold my hand a bit. A second Arch on a VM to use as a command canary and test updates and new packages, at least til im used to using Arch. etc etc. Thank you for being an excellent resource.
Hi, me!
Further into the video, I suppose the biggest thing I would still ask for a greater explanation of, is why you would choose rolling vs stable. My understanding is that rolling is best for gamers as you are more likely to get games to work on there especially with newer packages.
Hey Chris what do you think of EndevourOS ? I'm trying to get btrfs/snapper to create snapshots, snap-pac, grub-btrfs, snapper-gui.. it took a while but I got it working perfectly, I could move back and forth through snapshots in Arch-linux, so thought it time to reinstall and repeat the install, and some thing messed my config and now it all a mess 8( ...I should of just used the original install and not try to repeat the install...
He answered it in his tier list video. Summing up his thoughts on all Arch based distros he saw them as pointless. "Why use a riced version of Arch when you can rice it yourself." I think if it had been my video I would have made an intermediate tier in addition to the beginner/new user tier he had and stuck EndeavourOS there. I'm currently an EOS user now but I'm thinking of switching to Nobara Linux since I mainly game and photo edit and Nobara has really good tools for setting up NVIDIA out of the box and running (given darktable is kind of having some issues with OpenCLI with Radeon cards right now). But if you search for Chris' video he does have the tier list out there to piss off as many people as possible along with a clip of him demoting ZorinOS as well lol.
There's so much missing on Linux, what does Linus Torvalds say about systemd on his Linux system, there were soo many good visual programming suites/tools back in the bubble, visual dos, visual JavaScript from netscape, visual basic, visual studio, visualFoxPro, visualSQL, visual Perl, borland Delph - Kylix, and other Rad visual dev platforms like Magick, and the java visual stuff, all gone because of linux
what picom are you using
A vkBasalt guide would be great
1:30 - dang, imagine reading :p
4:45-5:00 We can see the background change, but MangoHud never says if vkbasalt is off for some reason
i didnt know audio editing was simply removing the mids lmao
a guide on this would be wonderful ❤ proton and such, any guides on gaming on linux stuff would be wonderful!
I must have a weird hardware combo because I could not get games to run correctly at all no matter what I tried (weird ghosting, stuttering, artifacting, etc) so I resorted to building a separate cheaper box specifically for linux that does everything I want besides gaming, then when I want to play games I tab over to a separate workspace where I have Moonlight client always running and connected to the Windows box that I only use for games and nothing else. This will work for me until things change :)
Did you use NVIDIA+Wayland?
This sounds like the type of issue you would get. The 560 driver should solve it (along side explicit sync support from DEs)
@@tablettablete186 Yeah that sounds about right. Maybe I'll give it another try soon!
That's just linux... Ass for gaming. Well at least half of the time. Idk if you use VR but that will almost never work from my experience.
I just installed an OSX vm right after making GPU passthrough for the win10/11.
The ultimate hackintosh.
I used i3 for a while. it seems to me that the performance tends to take a dive after a month or two, and I don't really know why that is. I imagine it'd take quite a while to notice if I had an SSD, but my install was on a spinning drive. refreshed that install because I did have it for a while at that point, thinking that might be the issue. and it again worked fine for the first while, and it again tanked in performance. I checked the drive and it came back clean. seems to be an i3 issue, but I can't be certain. it kinda sucked, because I did start to like it well enough.
Does "Batman, Arkham City" play better on Linux than on Windows?
I heard that the maker of the proton compatibility layer (Spicy Eggroll?) made Nobara and that due to that it is having the best game compatibility? I would love to hear your comments (and people's comments from here too).
I'm just curious if you have had any experience with Intel's ARC line of graphics cards on Linux. If so, what's your position or take towards their compatibility, integration, and performance on a Linux system? I'm not interested in buying one per-se, just curious towards the operability between hardware vendor architects with already existing Operating System Kernels, specifically in this case the Linux Kernel.
I also enjoy how stock i3 looks lmao. I'm pretty much inside neovim or my browser 99% of the time I dont even notice anything else
Hey, Chris! I'm getting ready to move to Linux and I'm trying to figure out how to port my normal "strategy" of program installs. I use the Portable version of a program whenever possible so that I never have to re-setup all the different options each time: save locations, window locations, etc. That way I can just backup the program directory and move it where ever I want to run it. How would I implement this strategy on a Linux system. Thanks!
I'm a novice, but I don't think portable apps are a thing on Linux. I think the closest you can get are AppImages. Someone with more experience will correct me possibly?
I used dwm much longer than Chris but I am not that familiar with the patch-program. 😏I literally used it once per new dwm-version, just to install the systemtray-patch. After that so much has changed (large patch) that I consider it more cumbersome to keep using the patch-program than just doing it myself. But the basic principle of the patch-program is straightforward: the patch program gets all the information it needs from the diff-file which gets generated automatcially by comparing the changed code to the original code (unpatched dwm), it simply reads which lines to add and remove in which files and it gets a rough (after the files changed compared to the original file) indication of where those lines are. If the software is in another directory then the user simply points out where it is. Not so complicated. I think that you can learn relevant things from LfS but for me it is much more interesting to just read how it works (and make sure that I understand it) than actually compiling all the software on my own system.
I don''t see the need to rice a window manager that you shouldn't see but once every 3 to 6 months.
Maybe you can make video how setup orca screan reader to work on arch Linux?
Where can I find protonrestart
Today it is easier to switch then ever as linux is mature and there is plenty of info on the web
Sadly not for me. My VR headset isn't detected...
What a great video to wake up to.
I, for one, welcome our new Dutch overlords. 🇳🇱
Uhhh…Ik verwelkom in ieder geval onze nieuwe Nederlandse opperheren.
Waiting for you to finish LGS
When you said 300 hours of setup to save 3 minutes of work, all I can think of is how you should hire a smart, lazy person as they will figure out the best ways to do tasks easier and faster.
That's not Linux from scratch... All of the software sources codes are already written...
Now go and write every line of source code! That's from scratch!
1:05:45 yep that is very true. Most distros are just another distro with a setup script.
what neofetch alterniteve shuld i use right now using fastfetch but it shows my ip
Find the config file and remove the line that shows your IP lol
screenfetch?
You can still use neofetch, it hasnt dissapeared…
why do you need a neofetch alternative?
@@massgrave8x it's dead no more updates
cool
What about Black Arch?
Just arch with some penetration testing stuff built in. You can just download arch and set the penetration testing software yourself
Motion blur.... god no ah ah
Didn't even touch the bugbear of Linux, the god damned file system. I've had multiple drives collated under one bullshit name/header in the borked-ass file "system". It's ridiculous that it's so obtuse.
im the minority but i hate lua with a passion
This shit is too hard. Why give up what i already know works perfectly for me? My games don't work, especially VR ones. Many of my games are labeled as "borked" on the proton database thingy. VR headset itself won't turn on when connected either. I tried for a day to get used to it and didn't get anywhere close. Anything longer is just too much of my limited free time wasted. When I get home, exhausted from work, I just want my games to work. And every time I tried to get help I got the usual "RTFM" and "oh thats easy _insert big block of terminal gibberish."_
Linux is a hobby itself because if you don't work with it, there's not that good of a use case for it otherwise. For the vast majority, Microsoft's horrific anti consumer and anti privacy antics is what has made people look for alternatives, not any inherent attraction of Linux.
Trying a Linux based system for a day to "get used to it" while expecting it to do all the goomer shit windows is suited to is akin to mashing piano keys for a day hoping to "get used to it" and be playing Chopin by the evening. Much like a real musical instrument, there's a lot of effort and learning that need to be put into Linux for it to work melodiously. Even then, no instrument is fit for all purposes.
Combine that with the huge friction that comes with people having to change their habits and learning something difficult and it becomes clearly apparent why most would rather let Microsoft and Co. harvest their data.
@@screwthishi5thing I'm not expecting it to do all the creepy shit windows does... Just what???? So you're saying that is inseparable from having things just work? The piano analogy is just stupid because I'd never consider switching OS to learn or as a hobby, the only reason I'd switch is to escape microshaft's bullshit when tweaking windows is no longer possible. I don't have time to do all that shit. If linux wants more popularity, someone needs to make a perfect distro with all the necessary compatibility layers already installed and set up, including for VR headsets. For some of us it's not an unwillingness to learn but rather *we just don't have the time.*
I just want my games to work with no hassle, especially VR games. And I don't see a need to have to learn linux when I can just modify windows with easy one click solutions (such as winaero tweaker or windows 10 debloater) that can neutralize all the shit microshaft puts in there all while still having my games "just work". I work a full time job, I don't have time to fight with my OS just to play a damn game when I get home. My free time is a limited resource, I'd rather spend it PLAYING my games and not constantly fighting with the OS to make them work.
I already put in enough effort into windows to disable as much of that shit as possible. Windows 10 debloater to uninstall all the "stock" MS apps and replace them with better alternatives as well as completely removing the telemetry from the OS at the system level. Winaero tweaker to completely disable anything else like cortana or copilot. That's good enough and my games still just work. Plus windows now uses literally 50% less resources on bootup too.
I dont do gaming on Linux, i just do grown up stuff.... Like programming
Tf how is gaming not meant for "grown ups"... You don't believe in entertainment at all I assume? I work a full time job, I pay my bills, I get my essential shit done. So what am I supposed to do in my free time then if not gaming???
@@RedVRCC you're free to do whatever you want mate. But I don't want to waste away my time after work switching off my head. I keep on programming personal apps and tools. I just do it for me, maybe someday I have something that I can use to build my own company with
@@joga_bonito_aro fair enough, but I'd rather not do more work after work that I'm not even getting paid for. Sounds boring as fuck imo.
@@RedVRCC it's not work if it is fun, is it? I myself was once an avid counter strike player (back in those glory 1.5/1.6 days) now I'm an old boomer and thinking back... It was a waste of time which I could have used better. With Hindsight everything is easier to assess.
A two hour video about understanding Linux should be a red flag to anyone interested in Linux. A 5 minute video about Windows 11 should be enough to get you going perfectly well on Windows. Going for Linux is like buying a cow to get milk.
The issue is that Linux users severely downplay the complexity of desktop Linux and it's issues, because they're aware just how bad it is, they adapted to that mess and they know that if they told beginners the truth, that would permanently dissuade them from ever considering Linux. I'd say it would be more beneficial to state upfront all the issues of Linux, because then people who would be willing to learn it would know from the start what they're getting into instead of being lied to and then having a whiplash when they face the reality of Linux.
This. I tried linux for a while and it took me soooo god damn long to even get a single game to run. And my VR games are unplayable because it won't detect the headset. Not to mention the RGB case fans and lighting I put so much effort into on my PC build can't be controlled anymore. Same with my peripherals, mouse and keyboard's extra features are unusable now. Also Nvidia driver support is complete ass, linux really did not like my 3060...
You have not learned linux, you have only learnt niche desktops and how to set up a distribution.
Have you seen his recent Linux from scratch video?
No, and i don't care. That's still not Linux - the kernel.
@@0x7f2c stop going in to useless discussions about semantics
@@0x7f2c meh.
@@hoardingapples7083 they're right though, more right than most people will ever be able to know
When you do the vkBasalt video, please go over using custom shaders and how to set them up in the configs.
I do use Reshade regularly on Windows but my usage is pretty heavy with Addons for effects layering, RT and Compute shaders, this looks very simple if all you're doing is tweaking the saturation or contrast, but honestly looks like a pain to fine-tune Presets on the fly since I need a much more involved setup and honestly so is anyone that actually uses Reshade seriously, but I don't have the entire context behind it perhaps...
just install Reshade shaders because it works wonderfully on Linux...
Next tutorial about proton & steam would be amazing (2)
Plz add timestamps/ chapters. In the age of reels,shorts,tiktoks most of viewers arent interest in watching 2 hour long videos.
While I understand talking negatively about the lack of choice on Windows in terms of key components such as display servers, init systems and whatnot, but Linux's freedom of choice is inherently flawed, as in there is no single standard. On Windows it's a single standard. Windows Boot Manager, Session Manager Subsystem, Desktop Window Manager. No freedom of choice? Yes, but there's a single standard. On Linux there's no single standard, and this leads to the issue where companies don't treat Linux seriously, as they aren't willing to port their software to Linux and be sure it will work on any distro with any combination of those components of which there are dozens in countless combinations, a lot of fringe cases to take into account for it to be worth the time and money. The reason systemd won is because it's a standard, one solution that developers don't have to worry about, no matter how bloated it is and how egotistical Poettering is. If people want Linux to have a higher user base, having a single standard for desktop components would be the number one thing to rectify from the decades of desktop Linux existing to finally push it forward instead of waiting on Windows to just get worse.
This is absolutely the hard truth Linux Desktop users don't want to admit. It needs standardization for real adoption.
An official SteamOS Desktop distro by Valve would be massive as a step to achieve that goal.
What these two smoothbrains above don't ironically understand, (or they're being ignorantly malicious on purpose) is that should linux standardize to the levels they want it to, we would just end up with another Windows. Especially the idiot asking for the standard to come from a megacorp, Jesus Christ.
At this point desktop linux would be best served to go all in on wine/proton and windows api compatibilty xD
Why doesn't System 76 like Chris?
Dunno, but system 76 is awesome! Great people and a great product/s. They do more for Linux than almost any other for profit out there.
CachyOS is amazing, I stopped distro hopping when I found it :D
weird take, Chris... i3 is INFINITELY customizable...
No; if we hated you, we would ask you to do a Debian GUI install. 😂
Bruh AMD is just fine for Davinci just saying... You should use it with rustcl and it just works if rocm isn't doing it for ya.. also easiest way to run davinci and never have issues on any distro is to install it through davincibox
1:19:00 That's gnome me thinks
Yes agree its a long journey to switch
to Linux its paying off now.
Rocky start with Debian 7 when Gnome switched to Gnome 3 my goodness made me to switch plain openbox and still using it with tint2 best non tiling manager ever.
11:32 you're not alone. Ive easily spent more time setting up my gentoo system to game than actually gaming, and I had fun doing it.
What is - BASH?
With proton and proton GE I haven't found a game I couldn't run on linux. Linux really improved much after the steam deck launch and I permanently moved over now.
The games with anticheat I really dont care about because having spyware on my pc really isn't my thing.
These days for the average gamer I will definitely recommend trying out linux because some games even run beter with some tuning.
You clearly have better luck than me then...
Many times I used Awsome wm I had memory leak. Does anyone knows this issue?
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Prime say In every video " I use arch btw"
Is there a linux laptop or desktop that has all the problems fixed and the user can just use it instead of spending time trouble shoot every once a while?
Yes, look at System76 or Tuxedo
Maybe the machines sold by System76. You get support.
Probably an older ThinkPad like a T480 or a X1 Carbon Gen6. Using Manjaro and Fedora on my machines for years without problems. As a beginner I would try Fedora with KDE it's rock solid.
Where is LFS part 2
Agree with you on distros. Arch or Debian👍. What you have figured out on DaVinci is great!
Installing Linux to be considered a god amongst mere mortals; proceeds to wipe current hard drive...
2Hrs later and one configuration setting change...
Then you realize you're still just a mortal!
I never want to use the terminal
It's more fun to use terminal rather than getting babysit all the time when using a computer
@@SanataniEren it's because of people like you that Linux will never become better than Windows
@@miro007ist like I care
@@SanataniEren not everyone is a masochist who enjoys troubleshooting for hours to achieve a simple fucking task
Skill issue /s
Jokes aside, adding some GUIs could be good
can you stop making those faces in the thumbnail please
Smiling??
@@Alo-xs5qu 😂